Example Quotes

Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which
field you can get into and hold a job in,
whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse,
for example.
- Daniel Goleman

If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you
must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example.
My father wasn't perfect.
- Adam Sandler

I want to get old gracefully.
I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and
be an example to my children.
- Sting

Radical changes in world politics leave America with
a heightened responsibility to be,
for the world, an example of a genuinely free,
democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything.
A good example is the O.J.
Simpson case.
- Joseph Wambaugh

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
- James C. Maxwell

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve
as an example of good or of evil?
- Alfred de Vigny

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture,
and they Americanized the family.
My mother was a great example for me.
She was a working mother with a good career.
- Andrea Jung

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance,
for example, of electronic medical records.
- Lois Capps

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages.
The think tanks are the single worst,
most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
- Frank Luntz

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States
to photograph your wildlife.
- Nigel Dennis

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example.
I thought that was intellectually hilarious.
The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic...
That to me was funny.
- Christopher Meloni

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting,
I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant
sound an appropriate place to live.
- Adrian Belew

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial,
because it may for example happen that the product
nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
- Walther Bothe

It's not what my job is about.
I'm not out to make a political statement.
I want to stand for something, but more by example.
- Lauren Bush

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that
there is going to be an emergency that happens in this
country that we cannot budget for.
Katrina is an example.
- Allyson Schwartz

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful,
and immediate example in which we are in danger of
turning procreation into manufacture.
- Leon Kass

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
- Edmund Burke

I learned from the example of my father that the manner
in which one endures what must be endured is more important
than the thing that must be endured.
- Dean Acheson

I think children learn from example.
I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
- Kent McCord

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery.
If you flatter all the company, you please none;
If you flatter only one or two,
you offend the rest.
- Jonathan Swift

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends
were also mainly artists or writers,
so he connects what I do with his example.
- Jonathan Lethem

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year
but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
- Franz Beckenbauer

The way the tour has developed has been as good an
example of that as you would like to see.
- David Gower

Most of the tasks we do are for humans.
For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers
so the government can pull money out from my wallet,
but government consists of humans.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious
example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
- Thabo Mbeki

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures,
for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children,
not grandparents.
- Alan Dundes

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly
and more by example than anything else.
Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.
- Keith Henson

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance;
it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
- Salvatore Quasimodo

This I regard as a classic example of my not being
properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
- Marie Windsor

There is a way in which all writing is connected.
In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate
the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
- Marilyn Hacker

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy,
old man.
I'm really good at it.
- Ned Beatty

We can demonstrate, by our own example,
how E.U.
freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U.
countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy.
- John Bruton

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie,
for example.
he had created an entire myth around himself.
It was as important as his music.
- Lars von Trier

Setting a good example for your children takes all
the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather

An office occupation is another example as not only
douse it disrupt the activities of the organization
it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
- Ben Edwards

A nobler example, because a less personal one,
of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment
of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
- James Payn

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No.
They preached Islam by personal example.
- Pervez Musharraf

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance.
For example, weights.
And in ballet, this isn't the case.
- Deborah Bull

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men.
The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
- Mary Wesley

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.
- George William Norris

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example,
that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through
the Living Murray process without money,
no one denies that.
- John Anderson

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice.
I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas.
It confuses people.
- Dirk Benedict

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.
- Rodrigo Rato

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example,
there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
- James Russell Lowell

The amount of data and analysis available for free
is a true example of information explosion has leveled
the playing field for individual investors.
- Maria Bartiromo

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot
be explained by the laws of logic or science.
Dennis Rodman is only one example.
- Dave Barry

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me
out as an example of what can be done without training.
- Kate Smith

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for
specific acts of exceptional discipline.
- Robert Vaughn

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies,
private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
- Elbert Hubbard

God created the family to provide the maximum love
and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
- Jerry Falwell

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself
in a manner that gives an example to others.
As a young man, I prayed for success.
Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
- Brendan Fraser

For example, in my district there are visitors from
all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches,
recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.
- Mark Foley

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist.
Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
- Irwin Shaw

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